Request: automatic character class counts in password recipe

danielparks
danielparks
Community Member
in Mac

I mostly care about the length of my password and whether or not it has special characters. I pretty much always prefer a password composed of all characters with a entirely random distribution of character classes.

So, on average I would get 17.8 special characters in a 50 character password (assuming there are 32 possible special characters):

17.8 ≈ (50 total characters) × (32 possible numbers) ÷ ((10 possible numbers) + (48 possible letters) + (32 possible special characters))

Alternatively, an automated version of what I currently do would work. I do that equation, and then enter the (rounded) number into 1Password for the character class. The password always has the same number of characters in each class, but all in all an improvement.

Hopefully that's somewhat clear. :D

Thanks,
Daniel

1Password Version: 6.1 (610006) Mac App Store
Extension Version: 4.5.5
OS Version: 10.11.3 (15D21)
Sync Type: iCloud

Comments

  • littlebobbytables
    littlebobbytables
    1Password Alumni

    Greetings @danielparks,

    So truly random password generator with no restrictions such as x digits. I see we have a feature request for this and I've added your vote. I wish I got to vote too as I want this as well. I understand the argument for what we have, where you can ensure a generated password can meet the requirements of the site when they say something like must have a digit and must have a symbol but given the size of passwords we tend to use because 1Password stores them the chances are any randomly generated password will have at least one digit.

    Please let me know if I've misunderstood your request at all.

    ref: OPM-797

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